Not seeing what video is showing

Well, to begin, my Studio looks nothing like that, though I imagine that is just a fancy skin you have on. Next, I was able to get it going, and I was even able to get hello world to display on my Nexus 4 phone. Then, when I tried to repeat this again, I get two errors. I changed nothing, and I'm suddenly getting errors for something that worked a few moments ago. Once again, totally in the dark about this. I should also add that the emulator doesn't seem to want to work at all, but I don't even want to go there right now.

"Error:(7, 17) Resource id cannot be an empty string (at 'id' with value '@+id/')." "Error:Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'.

com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/Users/jay/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/22.0.1/aapt'' finished with non-zero exit value 1"

Yes, sorry, I do have a skin on!

The page you're looking at is probably this but without the skin:

As for your error, it looks like somehow one of your resources is missing an ID. If you double-click on that error, it will bring you to the line where the error is.

Since you only have a TextView on the page at this stage, the ID should be this:

android:id="@+id/textView"

You'll change it later though, so it doesn't matter that much if it is different but, it can't be blank!

If you've got it working on your actual device then that's great and yes, you don't need the emulator. It's also wayyyy quicker than the emulator so, sorry for the longwinded explanation there (I just wanted to go through all of the possibilities just in-case you didn't have a device to run the app on).

Hopefully this should help but if you get another error, let me know on this post and I'll see what I can do :)

No problem!

The videos should definitely guide you through Android/Java and Ben does a great job at explaining everything.

I can see that you joined 2 days ago so, welcome to Treehouse and hope you enjoy it here :)

As always, if there's anything you don't understand or can't get your head around, post over in these forums and there'll always be someone looking around who'll (hopefully) pick up your question/problem and help you through it.

Have fun and happy coding :) *hi-five*

Thanks very much! I'm running into another issue that I'm having trouble solving on my own, learning Java was easier than this! Haha.

Once again, I haven't edited anything (apart from what you've pointed out), but I'm getting this error;

"Rendering Problems The following classes could not be instantiated: - android.support.v7.internal.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout (Open Class, Show Exception, Clear Cache) Tip: Use View.isInEditMode() in your custom views to skip code or show sample data when shown in the IDE"

I've tried fiddling with it, but I was under the impression that this blank app would be stable on it's own. Shouldn't it only be giving me all this trouble once I start messing around with it?

Yeah. I get problems like that now and then when I first start a project. Android Studio does have its moments sadly! This probably does put you off as a Beginner but, trust me, it gets better! Most of the issues you will have are often the start of a project/loading somebody else's project anyway.

I found usually the issue fixes itself after closing the window and open it again. If not, try these alternate fixes (Follow them in the same order until it works):

You can also try cleaning the project. To do this, click on the Build tab and then Clean Project and wait for the Clean to finish:

If you are still having issues, try Invalidating Android Studio's caches. To do this, click on the File tab then Invalidate Caches / Restart and press Invalidate and Restart:

If you are still having issues after that, paste the contents of your styles.xml file here (It's located in the res >> values directory) and I'll see if something looks wrong.

In the meantime, you could also try changing the Preview SDK Version to a different one if you've got one downloaded. To do this, on the Preview, click on the Android Icon and change the SDK Version to a different one (If you don't have another, you could download one but, I'd probably get back to you before it downloaded so it's not worth it really).

Hope it helps and if there's anything else, give me a shout :)

Yeah, it's a suitable fix for now. An alternate fix (If you still want to use API 22 for the Preview) is to fix the style it's trying to use in the styles.xml file I was talking about.

I just reproduced the problem by creating a new test app and if you change your theme to parent the Base class, it seems to fix the problem (You can delete everything in styles.xml and replace it with this to fix it):

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>

</resources>

Don't worry about all of the details here like what I'm doing with the themes - Ben goes through this sort of stuff in the projects. It is also completely fine to set your theme like this during the courses - In the majority, Ben will actually tell you to use a different theme (Themes allow us to change how things are styled - so colors of everything and whether we should show the action bar).